Chapter 189: Olympic Champion
In the frantic celebration of all the Chinese, the head coach of the Brazilian team kicked over a bottle of mineral water on the sidelines.
Goalkeeper Gabriel, who was paralyzed and careless and stood in front of him, was still lying in the goal, covering his face with his hands, and was reluctant to get up for a long time.
Neymar, Darmion and others also lowered their heads.
The relaxed and confident expression before the game no longer exists.
Cheng Hai showed them why he is the world's number one superstar, and also made them feel what it means to be desperate.
It was already the 72nd minute when Cheng Hai scored, and with the time to celebrate, the game would definitely have been more than 73 minutes when it restarted.
Even with stoppage time, there are only 20 minutes left.
Now Brazil are three goals behind and they need to score three goals in the remaining 20 minutes, and they need to keep Cheng Hai on the scoresheet to barely equalize and get a chance to play extra time.
This difficulty can be imagined.
It's impossible to think about.
The Istanbul Miracle is called a miracle because it is too difficult and too rare.
If this kind of reversal could be staged casually, it would not be called a miracle.
Especially with Cheng Hai's participation in defense, with Cheng Hai's physical fitness, speed, physique, header, point grabbing, off-ball running, defensive position, and tackling ability, it is almost impossible for the Brazilian Olympic team to score three goals in a row in the remaining time.
Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Kaka may have a chance to come to the luxury attacking line at this level, but Neymar and Darmion at the U23 level are really unlikely.
Of course, this is the final and, whether it is possible or not, as long as the match is not over, the Brazilian team cannot give up.
Otherwise, if you don't even have this little bit of morale, you will really become the object of ridicule from all over the world.
After the Chinese team celebrated and the game restarted, the Brazilian team no longer cared about any defense, but pressed on all fronts and launched a decisive general attack.
Not to mention the two full-backs, even central defender Juan crossed the halfway line and participated in the attack, leaving only Thiago Silva to stick near the halfway line to prevent the Chinese team's counterattack.
Even so, if Brazil were to win a corner, Silva would have rushed into the box to join in the aerial duel and try to head home.
The Brazilian team really launched a big attack.
The field suddenly became much more intense.
Although the Chinese team put up a big bus bucket formation to defend, it still couldn't withstand the excellent individual skills of the Brazilian team.
Even if Cheng Hai does not hesitate to run back and forth to participate in defense, there is always only one defensive force at his level.
The Brazilian team is also trying to avoid Cheng Hai's defense through passing and cutting runs.
When the other players of the Chinese team can't stop it, they can only stop the opponent by fouling. There are a lot of fouls, and there is always a punishment.
So, in the 84th minute, when Tang Jiashu pushed Neymar from the side at the front of the penalty area, he received a yellow card and gave the Brazilian team a free kick in front of the best position.
It was Neymar who took the goal.
Although Cheng Haidu lined up into the wall and tried to use his super bounce to block Neymar's free kick, he was unsuccessful.
Neymar played an extraordinary game and kicked a perfect arc to send the free-kick over the wall and into the corner of the Chinese goal.
Brazil finally pulled a point back and the aggregate score became 1-3, just two goals behind.
This goal boosted the morale of the Brazilian players, and Neymar, who scored the goal, did not celebrate, and immediately rushed into the goal, picked up the ball, brought it back to the center circle, and put it on the midpoint, signaling the Chinese team to hurry up.
With nearly 10 minutes left and only two goals behind, they have to fight again.
After the resumption of the game, the Brazilian team continued to press with all their strength and attack aggressively, trying to score two goals in the final minutes to equalize the score and drag the game into extra time.
However, the defense of the Huaguo team is not so easy to break.
Anyway, it's the last final, and the players have no scruples, let alone fouls.
Neymar, in particular, has become the focus of fouls on the Chinese team, and as long as he shows signs of breaking through with the ball, he may face fierce fouls from the players of the Chinese team.
Even if they were given a free-kick, it would be difficult for them to score from a direct free-kick again.
It's good luck to score a free kick in a game, and if you want to think about a few, it has to be very unlucky!
This is where the confidence of the Chinese team dares to foul.
The Chinese team's iron bucket bus and foul tactics made the Brazilian fans and neutral fans in the stands frown, and boos and curses were everywhere.
But where will the Chinese players care about that?
All they know is that as long as they hold the score of 3-1 until the end, they will win the first world championship of Chinese football.
Yes, this time it is not limited to the men's football team, but the entire Chinese football team, which won the world championship for the first time.
The Chinese women's football team had a chance to win the World Cup in 1999, but in the end it fell short, losing to the United States in the final and finishing as runners-up.
Today's Olympic final is the first time in the history of Chinese football, including men's and women's football, that they are so close to the world champion.
The players on the field are not allowed to stage any more black three minutes of history, they have to control their fate and hold this championship in their hands!
As the clock went on, Brazil became more and more anxious, and in the end even Thiago Silva crossed the halfway line and became involved in the attack.
In the frenzied attack of the Brazilian team, Cheng Hai did not fully focus on defense.
He knew that if he could score another goal, it would be the real killing game.
Therefore, while he is involved in the defense, he is always on the lookout for the position of the Brazilian defenders and the opportunities for counter-attacks.
After Thiago Silva crossed the halfway line, Cheng Hai felt his opportunity had come. As long as he seizes the opportunity to counterattack, there is a high probability that he will go to the meeting alone.
Finally, when the time came to the 89th minute, when the fourth official on the sidelines had already raised the sign for four minutes of stoppage time, Neymar, who wanted to break through into the penalty area with the ball, was tackled to the ground by a fierce flying tackle by Maitijiang.
The players of the Brazilian team immediately excitedly signaled that this was a tackle foul by Maitijiang.
However, the referee ignored them and motioned for the match to continue.
He saw very clearly that Maitijiang tackled the ball first and then brought down Neymar, and there was no dangerous action, and Neymar was not injured.
It was a standard perfect precision tackle.
The players of the Chinese team will not pay attention to the cries of the Brazilian players, as long as they do not hear the referee's whistle, they will not stop.
The ball stabbed by Maitijiang Fei fell right at the feet of Cao Yunding on the side, and Cheng Hai also turned around and rushed towards the half of the Brazilian team at the moment when Maitijiang successfully tackled, instantly surpassing Juan and Sandro who thought Maitijiang would be judged to be fouled and could not react.
In front of Cheng Hai, only Thiago Silva was left, and the Brazilian team's half had become a huge, unguarded racetrack.
Where will Cheng Hai be polite, while avoiding Silva's interception and card position by changing directions, he stretched out his hand to point at the Brazilian team's half, signaling Cao Yunding to pass the ball to the Brazilian team's half.
In fact, without Cheng Hai's finger, Cao Yunding has already seen Cheng Hai's running position and the empty half of the Brazilian team.
With such a large empty field, coupled with Cheng Hai's world's No. 1 speed, Cao Yunding didn't need to pass too accurately at all, just send the ball to the Brazilian team's half.
Cheng Hai's super fast speed can naturally surpass Silva and form a single knife.
Therefore, Cao Yunding, who got the ball, did not hesitate, and kicked the ball towards the half of the Brazilian team with a big foot before Oscar, the Brazilian forward who rushed over to the side.
This big foot is not a subtle pass, and the landing point is not directly in front of Cheng Hai's running position.
But the ball successfully dodged Oscar's counter-attack, and was not too close to the opponent's penalty area to be picked up by the opposing goalkeeper, but fell in the front field more than ten meters away from the Brazilian penalty area line.
Goalkeeper Gabriel did not dare to rush out of the box to clear the ball, because Cheng Hai had already overtaken Thiago Silva and rushed towards the ball spot.
Cheng Hai's speed is too fast.
Although Silva was stuck while running, he still couldn't stop Cheng Hai's S-shaped running position, and he couldn't even push Cheng Hai down in the end.
Cheng Hai has taken his speed to the extreme.
Cao Yunding's big foot opened a little bigger, and the ball fell to the ground first and bounced before being caught up by Cheng Hai.
But it didn't matter, just so that Cheng Hai didn't have to slow down, he received the ball and went to the penalty area.
Because he was afraid of Cheng Hai's hanging shot, Gabriel didn't dare to attack too far, but just stood behind the penalty spot near the small penalty area line, passively waiting for Cheng Hai's arrival.
In this kind of position of the goalkeeper, it is true that the hanging shot may not be able to score.
But Cheng Hai's full-value archery skills, do you still need to stick to a shooting method?
With such a big goal, where can a person seal it?
After dribbling the ball to the penalty line, Cheng Hai immediately rounded his big legs, volleyed, and kicked the ball to the bottom right corner of the goal.
In the moment after Cheng Hai's shot, Gabriel did his best to make a save.
However, Cheng Hai's shooting power was too great and the ball speed was too fast.
Before Gabriel could make a move, the ball flew diagonally under his palm against the turf.
Gabriel, who fell to the ground, could only watch in despair as the ball slipped into the bottom right corner of the goal against the turf.
When the ball drilled into the goal, the commentator of Huaguo CCTV CCTV-5 on the commentary seat suddenly pulled his throat excitedly and roared in the loudest voice:
"The ball went in, it went in, it went ......"
"Goal!"
"Cheng Hai has scored again!"
"The senior is happy, Cheng Hai staged the first big four in the history of the Olympic finals, helping the Chinese team to take a 4-1 lead."
"There are less than four minutes left in the game."
"Three goals ahead."
"Cheng Hai completely killed the game!"
"We're going to win!"
"We are about to defeat the mighty Brazil team and become world champions!"
"So excited! So excited! ”
"Thank you Cheng Hai!"
"We're going to be Olympic champions."
With the roar of the commentator, all the overseas Chinese, Chinese fans, and Cheng Hai fans at the scene and in front of the TV all cheered excitedly and celebrated.
On the court, when Cheng Hai opened his arms and ran to celebrate, Cao Yunding, Mai Tijiang, Jiang Jiajun, Zhang Linpeng and others in the backcourt all rushed up excitedly.
even includes goalkeeper Wang Dalei.
The championship of the Chinese team is 100% secure.
Although the game was not over yet, looking at the 4-1 score and watching the Chinese players huddle together to celebrate excitedly, there were still a few Brazilian players who couldn't stand the blow and sat down on the ground.
Goalkeeper Gabriel, in particular, lay on the ground and did not get up.
It was too hard.
Neymar's direct free kick once gave everyone hope, but they didn't expect Cheng Hai to score in stoppage time and kill the game directly.
The powerful Brazilian team was slaughtered by Cheng Hai alone with a big four.
Everyone knows that no matter how strong the Brazilian team is, it is powerless.
Therefore, Cheng Hai and his teammates celebrated for nearly a minute, but the Brazilian team did not stand up to protest, or the referee felt that they had celebrated for too long, so he took the initiative to intervene and let Cheng Hai and others end their celebrations and start the game again.
The score of 4-1 made the Brazilian team completely lose the motivation to continue the game, and after the game restarted, the Brazilian team did not launch the final onslaught, but began to fall back in the midfield.
Obviously, they have thrown in the towel.
Then, the Chinese team made another substitution, allowing players who had not played from the group stage to the present to appear on the stage of the Olympic final.
Four minutes into stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
Suddenly, the entire Cardiff Millennium Stadium was filled with the excited screams and shouts of the Chinese people, and the cheers of tens of thousands of Chinese fans were deafening.
The coaches, substitutes, team doctors, and staff on the sidelines also rushed into the field excitedly to celebrate the victory with the Chinese players on the field.
The Huaguo commentator on the commentary seat explained affectionately with excitement:
"The referee blew the final whistle and the game was over, and the Chinese Olympic team defeated the Brazilian Olympic team with a score of 4-1 to win the final championship of men's football at the London 2012 Olympic Games."
"This is the most glorious day in the history of Chinese football."
"Huaguo football finally won its first world championship."
"The biggest contributor to this championship is undoubtedly Cheng Hai."
"This final was completely Cheng Hai's performance alone, he scored all four goals of our Chinese national team, and completed the only big four in the history of the Olympic football final."
"Moreover, Cheng Hai's total Olympic goals reached 17, 11 more than the second-place Damian."
"It was precisely by virtue of Cheng Hai's siege that the Huaguo team won the Olympic championship historically."
In addition to offense, Cheng Hai's contribution to defense is also the first in the team. Whether in terms of running distance or the number of pressing, Cheng Hai is much more than other players in the national Olympic team. ”
As the world's No. 1 superstar, Cheng Hai did not disappoint. In the U23 Olympic competition, he really stood out from the crowd and successfully led the Chinese Olympic team to the top of the Olympic championship. ”
"Huaguo football ushered in the most glorious day."
"Presumably, after today, more children will fall in love with playing football, and the future of Chinese football is worth looking forward to."
Against the backdrop of the Chinese players' celebrations, the players of the five-star Brazilian Olympic team, who fell on the final for the third time and have never won the Olympic championship, collapsed to the ground in twos and threes, and some even shed tears.
Before the final, they felt that the Olympic gold medal was so close to them.
After the final, they felt that the gold medal was so out of reach.
Missing this opportunity, perhaps, they will have to go for it at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
But who knows if Cheng Hai will participate as an overage player again at that time?
Anyway, most of the players on the field today will not be able to participate in the next Olympics.
The runners-up made them the biggest losers among the 16 teams at the Olympic Games.
However, there was one person who did not cry, did not shed tears, did not collapse on the ground and felt sorry for himself, but took the initiative to find Cheng Hai and asked for an exchange of jerseys.
That man is Neymar.
The Brazilian super talent, who has not yet transferred to Europe and is already famous all over the world, after exchanging jerseys, solemnly said to Cheng Haidao:
"Thank you, Cheng Hai, for letting me know what a true genius is."
"I'm going to work harder to keep up with you and continue to compete with you in Europe when the time comes."
Cheng Hai smiled: "Welcome, come on!" ”
After more than 20 minutes of celebration, the podium was built, and in the applause of the fans, the honorary medals of the final referee group, the bronze medal of Mexico, and the silver medal of the Brazilian team were awarded.
Cheng Hai then received the awards for the top scorer and the best player.
Finally, with the excited applause and cheers of the Chinese fans, the Chinese Olympic team received the gold medal in the men's football final of the Olympic Games, and the award presenter, FIFA President Blatter, helped them hang around their necks.
When wearing the gold medal for Cheng Hai, Blatter said in a low voice: "Cheng Hai, your talent and attack power have amazed the whole world, and I believe that under your leadership, football will definitely become a more popular sport in Asia." I personally support you winning this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or. ”
Cheng Hai hugged Blatter and thanked him for his support.
As Blatter said, the rise of Cheng Hai has made a huge contribution to the popularity of football in Asia, especially in China.
Blatter himself very much hopes that there will be more superstars like Cheng Hai rising in the underdeveloped areas of football, playing a role in promoting the development of football and increasing the weight of FIFA in world sports events.
As the president of FIFA, his weight is naturally heavier.
Therefore, Blatter's support for Cheng Hai is understandable.
When the majestic national anthem sounded over the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, even Cheng Hai, who had seen countless big scenes and won many championships, felt tears in his eyes, and couldn't help but shed tears of excitement while singing the national anthem.
This is the first world championship he won on behalf of Chinese football, and it is really significant.
Even Cheng Hai was a little unable to control his emotions.